It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
MILES DAVISIt takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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If you understood everything I say, you’d be me!
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I used to enjoy all the white bands when I was a kid listening to the radio. But the record companies, they take music and label it – like, they say “rock”. Because the white singers can’t sound like James Brown, they call him “soul”. They’ve been doing that for years. That’s the prejudice crap.
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A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I’m still doing it.
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I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.
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Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.
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Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
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I ain’t no entertainer, and ain’t trying to be one. I am one thing, a musician.
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Some musicians play with their heart, you know what I mean? I don’t know what to tell a person that can’t – if you can’t tell a person what you’re talkin’ about when they’re rushin’ or droppin’ the tempo, you get somebody else.
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I’m not messing around with nobody’s woman. If I want a woman I go get her – you know what I mean?
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Drummers – sometimes they play and they listen. And that little listen takes a speck away from the right tempo.
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He sounded to me like he’s supposed to be the savior of jazz. Sometimes people speak as though someone asked them a question. Well, no one asked him a question.
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Jazz musicians are so comfortable. The reason they can’t do what we do is because they’re so comfortable doin’ what they do.
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Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
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You can dominate a game if you dominate on the line… We’re just going to have to go out there and work hard and blow people off the ball, and let our runners do what they do best.
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I don’t care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing.
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